1st Lancashire Artillery Volunteers
The 1st Lancashire Artillery Volunteers, popularly known as 'Brown's Corps', was an auxiliary unit of the British Army raised in Liverpool in 1859. As the Lancashire & Cheshire Royal Garrison Artillery in the Territorial Force it was responsible for defending the Mersey Estuary and the coastline of North West England. It was one of the few coast defence units to fire a shot during World War I but also provided personnel for a number of siege batteries that saw action on the Western Front. It continued in the coast defence role during World War II, at the end of which it sent troops to work in the rear areas in Europe. It was reformed postwar but was broken up when the coast artillery branch was abolished in 1956.
19th Century waistbelt of the Lancashire Volunteer Artillery
Lt-Col James Clifton Brown, MP.
RML 12.5-inch gun of 1875 preserved at Fort Nelson.
Mk VII 6-inch gun in typical coast defence emplacement, preserved at Newhaven Fort.
Sir William Brown, 1st Baronet, of Richmond Hill
Sir William Brown, 1st Baronet DL was a British merchant and banker, founder of the banking-house of Brown, Shipley & Co. and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1846 to 1859.
Sir William Brown, 1846
William Brown Street
Brown's family vault in St James's Gardens
